A Valley Girl from LA inherits an old "English" manor house (which is in fact a modern house in CA that is decidedly not 300y old) from a distant uncle who makes prized furniture. She flies over and meets the young man living there - the protege of the uncle - who stymies her efforts to sell the house. The fatuous storyline by Anna Rasmussen is replete with cliches - the proper way to make English tea, fish and chips, Wellies (worn on a sunny day) and cycling to a pub to play darts. Incredibly, she falls in love in a week, changes her mind about selling, stays on in England, goes into the furniture business and marries her protagonist. But only after racing to the railway station (a Hollywood staple from the 1930s) in hot pursuit of the elusive guy. She's one determined chick. This is a poorly disguised ripoff on the failed 2006 Ridley Scott movie A GOOD YEAR set in the Provençe with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard, based on a story by - who else - Peter Mayle. Sterling Locke and Juliet Mills at least do a creditable job in their roles. Pity.
4 Reviews
I really didn't buy this
VetteRanger6 June 2023
Not a lot about this plot made sense. A young woman is the last distant relative of a man who owned an enormous English country estate. The place they showed in the film would go for tens of millions of dollars. She expects to sell it in a week?
Then she found out her distant uncle ran a furniture crafting business, which evidently hadn't been producing much product lately. How was he paying the upkeep on the enormous estate? He certainly didn't leave her a flush cash inheritance to help out with that.
Then she meets the guy who ran the business for her uncle, and her uncle left him the furniture business. But again, there doesn't seem to be much furniture being produced.
Of course, the two get off to a rocky start and he sabotages her showing while she tries to sell the place. But after that they start to get along?
My wife and I finally had enough when the writers had him put on a pair of Wellies to ride a bike into town for lunch at the pub. Hint: that is NOT when you wear Wellies, which are for tromping through mud and worse out in the fields.
Quite simply, nothing about the script, plot or dialogue, rang true for us ... and while American ... we've traveled to England a few times and stayed with friends on farms.
Sad, because when I saw the title, I had better hopes for this movie.
Then she found out her distant uncle ran a furniture crafting business, which evidently hadn't been producing much product lately. How was he paying the upkeep on the enormous estate? He certainly didn't leave her a flush cash inheritance to help out with that.
Then she meets the guy who ran the business for her uncle, and her uncle left him the furniture business. But again, there doesn't seem to be much furniture being produced.
Of course, the two get off to a rocky start and he sabotages her showing while she tries to sell the place. But after that they start to get along?
My wife and I finally had enough when the writers had him put on a pair of Wellies to ride a bike into town for lunch at the pub. Hint: that is NOT when you wear Wellies, which are for tromping through mud and worse out in the fields.
Quite simply, nothing about the script, plot or dialogue, rang true for us ... and while American ... we've traveled to England a few times and stayed with friends on farms.
Sad, because when I saw the title, I had better hopes for this movie.
Couldn't Get Through It ...
JerseyGirl507 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
She complained about her boyfriend on his phone but couldn't put hers down during the start of dinner. How about both of them turning them off or putting on vibrate? The dueling constant ring tones was annoying.
The squealing when she hung up the phone after hearing she had inherited an estate was annoying.
She owns her own business but thinks she can get money from a sale of an estate in another country within a week? Rather naive...and annoying.
Acting as her own solicitor/real estate agent (whatever the correct term is in England) was idiotic. And annoying.
Her attitude towards anything that differed from what she was used to in the U. S. was annoying.
I rarely turn off a movie - even when I don't like it I watch it in case it improves - but I couldn't make it through this one. It made her appear shallow and stupid and as I've gotten older I've gotten a lot less tolerant of things that make women look like incompetent morons.
The squealing when she hung up the phone after hearing she had inherited an estate was annoying.
She owns her own business but thinks she can get money from a sale of an estate in another country within a week? Rather naive...and annoying.
Acting as her own solicitor/real estate agent (whatever the correct term is in England) was idiotic. And annoying.
Her attitude towards anything that differed from what she was used to in the U. S. was annoying.
I rarely turn off a movie - even when I don't like it I watch it in case it improves - but I couldn't make it through this one. It made her appear shallow and stupid and as I've gotten older I've gotten a lot less tolerant of things that make women look like incompetent morons.
THE LAND OF THE RISING LOVE
frosmusic12 August 2023
I'm on my Philo and hapoened to cross this. Very interesting but I'm fond of making guesses of storylines. Lovestories usualky run same plot, twist it you may but end the same. In this case, lobe waiting and change the course of plan. Ooops, live prevails! Truth is, I love more the in-betweens, meeting new friends along the way, more so with locals. These are the people who complete the story, the ones that went down the centuries to make a place like thie English Estate a story for generations to share. Even in movies.
English Estate is one movie I've been interssted in most recently as I'm introduced to more and more English drama. So much history and drama English movies are famed for. Not to mention how I'm mesmerized by the British accent. Filipino like me, needless to say, is imoressed. Or perhaps, star struck?
English Estate is one movie I've been interssted in most recently as I'm introduced to more and more English drama. So much history and drama English movies are famed for. Not to mention how I'm mesmerized by the British accent. Filipino like me, needless to say, is imoressed. Or perhaps, star struck?
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